In 2010, he wrote and starred in the supposedly inspirational sports movie and unofficial Olympic tie-in Fast Girls, then two years later he had the same roles in Storage 24, a naff Alien rip-off set in a self-storage unit in South London.

Now, he’s stepped back into the director’s chair for his most ambitious project yet – a high concept sci-fi.

Sadly, it’s no “anomaly” in Clarke’s recent career. If anything this witless, ludicrous, amateurish effort is even duller than his last movie.

To be fair, the idea isn’t a terrible one. Clarke plays a widowed, super-tough former soldier (yes another one) whose brain has been taken over by a terrorist madman (a cameo from Brian Cox).

But the link to his noggin has a glitch. Occasionally, Clarke will come to his senses for increments of 9 minutes 47 seconds giving him a tight window to work out his unwitting involvement in the evil scheme.

Sadly, once you’ve worked out that the plot even more ridiculous than you feared there’s not much to hold your interest.